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Paper presented at the 1st. International Symposium on Open Educational Resource: Issues for Globalization and Localization
April , 2011 –Utah State University
Logan, Utah USA

3. Research Groups
Proativa - Group of Research and Production of Interactive Environments and Learning Objects
Coordinator: Professor Aires
Objective: Research, Production and Application of Educational Resources
Great - Group of Computer Networks, Software Engineering and Systems
Coordinator: Professor Rossana
One of the Objectives: Research and Development in the fields of Software Engineering (development process, test, quality,etc) and mobile computing

4. Guided Customization for Learning Objects
Maria de Fátima Costa de Souza, PhD student / Prof. UFC Virtual Institute
José Aires de Castro Filho, Prof. UFC Virtual Institute
Rossana Maria de Castro Andrade, Prof. UFC Department of Computer Science

5. Open Software In the last years, the idea of open software
Expanded and involved new applications
More freedom to users
Democratizing information and Knowledge
One kind of freedom provided by open software
Users can adapt them to their needs
However
Users need access to software codes and
Technical knowledge to perform the adaptation

6. Open Software Even with this type of restriction
freedom to adapt this was a great evolution
This idea evolved and included
Educational Environment
Open Educacional Resources (OER)

7. Educational Resources
In the case of OER
Adjustements are quite specific
focus on context and target audience
Requiring in this case, direct intervention of a teacher

8. Educational Resources
A teacher knows how to present the content so that it is better suited for his/her students
However, teachers do not necessarily have the knowledge to modify at the level of the code
Thus, the possibility to modify only the code is not appropriate

9. Our Approach Strategy for Opening Educacional Resources
Specifically Learning Object (LO)
Guided Customization

10. Traditional Development Process of LO

11. Guided Customization for LO (CLO)
What can be adapted in the resources at the design step
The development team can then build customizable educacional resources

12. Main Screen of an activity 1
Example (before CLO)
Main Screen of an activity 1

13. Main scene architecture
Example (before CLO)
Main scene architecture

14. Main Screen of an activity 1
Customizable LO
Main Screen of an activity 1

15. Main Screen of an activity 1
Customizable LO
Main Screen of an activity 1

16. Authoring Tool CLO Studio
GMF – Graphical Modelling Framework – framework que permite utilizar alguns plugins do Eclipe
CLO Studio

17. Final Remarks Thus, with our approach the resources can be
Customized by users, in this case, teacher
Modification when using the LO
Without compromising the content

18. Final Remarks
The real benefits of this opening strategy can be reflected in practice
giving more autonomy to teachers